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One of my favorite KPOP groups is Monsta X (I’ve briefly mentioned them a few times) and a few weeks ago two of the members, including my favorite (Kihyun) released this great cover of Crush’s song You and I (I shared a Crush song on here before). It is so good, I adore it. I hope you do, too.

Jooheon is the one in the hat and Kihyun is the other. Below is the original version as sung by Crush.

You’ll notice that I haven’t listened to a lot of music this week. That isn’t strictly true, most of my music has been from my YouTube Watch Later playlist. If you’re not a regular YT user (I am and ever since I subscribed to Google Music, I use it even more — it comes with YT Red, which means no commercials) you may not know what it is. When you’re logged into your Google account and go to YT, as you browse videos you’ll see something in the upper right corner of the thumbnail that looks like a clock. That’s the add to watch later button. You click that and then you can save it for later. I have been doing that a lot and I had a ton of videos in there. But in preparation for hanging out with N this weekend, I wanted to clear them out so it’s just filled of English subbed videos. That meant most of the stuff I listened to (still kpop, of course) was on YT and not Spotify or Google Music.

Anyway, onto the fun stuff.

What I’ve Been Reading:

No new read harder books this week, maybe something next week, we’ll see. I’ll hopefully be reviewing the Jack Cheng book at some point.

Completed:

See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng

Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels, book 8)

Black Panther: a Nation Under Our Feet. Book Two by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze

What Did You Eat Yesterday vol 10 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Currently reading:

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (audio book – on hold)

Chapelwood: the Borden dispatches by Cherie Priest

Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino

Chimes At Midnight by Seanan McGuire (audio book: October Daye, Book 7)

What Did You Eat Yesterday vol 11 by Fumi Yoshinaga

What I’m Watching:

Completed:

I’m hoping to write up a review of TTM sometime soon, too.

Tokyo Tarareba Musume (Japanese drama)

Flash Point (HK film)

Brigadoon (1954)

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (documentary)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

Logan’s Run (1976)

Currently:

Totsuzen Desu ga, Ashita Kekkon Shimasu (Japanese drama)

Oh My Ghost (kdrama)

What I’m listening to:

Mostly a bunch of new groups. I can’t help it. It’s one of the best things about kpop, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. On Spotify, though, just two different kpop groups (one new, one not) and a great jazz musician.

Joey Alexander – Countdown

Seven O’Clock – Butterfly Effect

Monsta X – The Clan pt. 2.5 [Beautiful]

And a picture. Monsta X (above) is going to make their Japanese debut soon and their Japanese company has been releasing photos. Have one of my favorite member of Monsta X, Kihyun. I’ve shared him a lot, but he is my favorite, after all!

Last week I talked about watching some musicals and one of those was Annie Get Your Gun. I knew, going in, that this musical was not a great one. I also expected it to be racist and sexist, but I honestly didn’t really know what I was in for. You can read my full review over on Letterboxd, but suffice to say that I pretty much only gave it one star because I like some of the songs.

Anyway, onto the actual, fun things.

What I’ve Been Reading:

Reader Harder:

Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel: The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

Completed:

Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indriðason (audio book on CD)

Reading:

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (audio book – on hold)

Chapelwood: the Borden dispatches by Cherie Priest

Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino

Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire (audio book)

What I’m watching:

The most recent two episodes of Voice have gotten really intense. There are only two more left. I can’t wait to find out what happens.

This is Kihyun, of the boy group Monsta X. They are one of my favorite groups and coming back soon. I’m going to try to include pictures of some kind, from now on, that make me happy. This teaser photo of Kihyun is one of those images! Look forward (maybe … you may not be doing that, actually, but shhh) to more (probably kpop related) photos.